Richard Belden

Abt 1598 - 1655  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Richard Belden
  Birth	Abt 1598	Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1655	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I17227	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TD
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Lawrence Beldon,   b. Bef 20 May 1571   d. Bef 1641 (Age < 69 years)
  Family ID	F16416	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Ackrenden
  Marriage	9 Dec 1622	Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. John Belden,   b. Bef 8 Feb 1634   d. 27 Jun 1677, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 43 years)
  Family ID	F10582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He probably emigrated about 1638 with a group of Yorkshire Puritans led by Ezekiel Rogers, minister of Rowley, Yorkshire. He first appears in Wethersfield records in 1641. The two generations of ancestry given for him here were pieced together from fragmentary records by Paul C. Reed (citation details below) with the caveat that there is "no absolute proof" of his parentage. What Reed did prove was that he was absolutely not, as Belden family tradition long claimed, a son of Sir Francis Baildon of Kippax in the West Riding.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3890] Paul C. Reed and John C. B. Sharpe, "The English Ancestry of Richard1 Belden of Wethersfield, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 76:20, Jan 2001; 76:122, Apr 2001. [S2189] The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, From Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time by Sherman W. Adams, ed. Henry R. Stiles. New York: The Grafton Press, 1904. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S3889] Donald E. Poste, "English Origins of the Beldens of Wethersfield." The American Genealogist 45:135, 1969.